I'm watching the fucking empathy show so I can contrast it unfavorably with the unempathic murderteens show, and I forgot how... This show.. this show is
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OH MY FUCKING GOD GUYS It's 12 minutes into this episode THERE WAS A MURDER A FEW MINUTES AGO And nearly every shot has been the characters just chilling to music
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So in this show the bad guys are aware that, in the deeply stupid story we're being told, the empathic superpeople are weakened by androgens They also chose to compromise a member of the protagonist cluster WHY if they know this did they choose one of the cishet dudes?
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GERMAN CRIME MAN: I'm sorry, nice biochemist lady, but we can't have any more brain sex BIOCHEMIST: look I just listened to that guy explain how estrogen is like MDMA and I need to fuck the stupid away FEMME FATALE: help me take over the world, crime man GCM: sounds good
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TRANS LADY: hey, so what do we do? TRANS LADY'S NON-SUPEREMPATHIC GF: let's go watch gay men discuss poststructuralism, even though you're wanted for murder, so we can say objectifying things about them TRANS LADY: excellent
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NETFLIX: we want a profound and touching pulp fiction saga about people on the run from the law and how they connect and fail to WACHOWSKIS: Cool we just need 8 on location crews and $8bn WHOEVER MADE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD: ok we're British, we'll just do it in our backyard
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BEREAVED FATHER to GAY MAN: I knew it! My son didn't die because of drugs but because of a conspiracy GAY MAN: actually he died because of a drugs conspiracy
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(actual quotation) OLD KOREAN LADY to COP: the only thing I hate more than rhetorical questions? Stupid rhetorical questions
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TRANS LADY (Actual quotation): We found the zombie factory!
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Holy shit Wachowskis, it was deniable when your East Asian character also happened to be the one with the martial arts hobby but Korean beat cops don't know Kung Fu come ON
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THE BAD GUYS: we hate the empathy people We tried to force sterilize the empathy people but that didn't work so now we're killing them OTHER BAD GUYS: great idea! Because of 9/11 THE BAD GUYS: Ok so let's saw their brains in half because that's how you summarily execute someone
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Wair the bad guys are Abrasax Electronics WHAT IS AN ABRASAX AND WHAT DID IT DO TO THE WACHOWSKIS
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ACTUAL QUOTATION ZONE AHEAD: HACKER (wearing tiger fursuit): I have the solution to your problem LESBIANS: Which one? HACKER: <the police> they'd stop if you were dead LESBIANS: what are you talking about? HACKER: I'm talkin' *e-death*!!!
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Now it's a music video on why sharing is good, I'm completely serious here
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Oh fucking hell you had to make it a plot point that Africans are homophobic didn't you Wachowskis Let's be honest, have you ever been outside of Chicago? Like, it's okay if you haven't. Just like, admit it. I mean your best work was literally "what if everything was Chicago"
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EVIL BEARD MAN: hello, Cop Man. I see you're in bed with drug lady, I'm here to creep on both of you COP MAN: drug girl, give me the testosterone drugs before Evil Beard Man gets creepier!
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EVIL BEARD MAN: I'm not here to be evil anymore. I just want to tell you about a story from when I did my PhD in medicine ME: your... M...D?
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EVIL BEARD MAN: hello gay actor, I notice you're looking at Big Ben. Have I mentioned I like architecture? *Begins sounding like Howard Roarke*
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Oh my God they're actually going with "gothic architecture is evil and antiindividualist"
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THE VILLAIN, Im not making this up: I am trying to engineer a species that is the most violent, unempathic, and intolerant in the history of this planet
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Oh wow they're actually finally using the obvious observation I've been making but none of the characters have that having a cop in your empathy brain cluster is compromising even if he isn't getting mind read
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I can tell JMS wrote this scene because it's about Twitter and gets details right
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OH MY GOD THEYRE MEETING A CONTACT IN A GUY FAWKES MASK THE SHARK BEING JUMPED IS DOUBLE META
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oh my God he's alliterating with vs
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FAWKES MASK GUY: venal virtuosity <goes on> CIS LESBIAN: wow did you come up with that ANON: no there's an app for it
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The trans lady now has a USB key of death but owes Anonymous a favor And I'm serious, it's a USB key with a skull containing "e-death"
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Now I know they're (badly) taking the piss ANON: we've had our EYE on you for some TIME now, Miss Marks TRANS LADY: what??? ANON, dropping voice/accent: sorry, that sounded stalkery. We just think you're cool
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COP GUY: look I know you all are depressed but I just talked to the evil cop who's been hunting us and I want to give you a speech about the inspirational nature of being a cop and how by extension you are all cops too
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DRUG LADY: I'm here to DJ this concert. I'm an international fugitive and I just wanted to say I have the courage to be here because of the cop inside my brain
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*Zion orgy happens, only there's an invisible cop there*
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Oh my God COP MAN: By the way taking anti-estrogen medication is literally worse than heroin, this is my opinion as a cis man
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